rmacroRDM

adventures in research data management and open source software.

Anna Krystalli | @annakrystalli

Sheffield R users group - 21st June 2016

• Present the functionality of the under-development package

The functions in the package enable easier handling and compiling of biological trait data.

• Discuss experience so far of developing an open project

code developed working on my last two projects:

Sex Roles in Birds
Bird trait networks

• tracking data provenance and specificity key
• code & data major outputs

The basic premise has been pretty consistent:

Here's a master data sheet, here's bunch more data in various formats and with varied reference information, here's some more open sources of data, put it all together and prepare it for for analysis.

2 iterations of development

- BAAD

a Biomass And Allometry Database for woody plants

- traits

R client for various sources of species trait data.

- BETYdb

The Biofuel Ecophysiological Traits and Yields Database (BETYdb), a database of plant trait and yield data

• opening up makes better code
• being visible helps linking up to relevant projects
• being visible increases feedback
• building stronger networks and communities

= science wins!

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